welcome to bbc news we go straight to new york where donald trump will be in court in the next few hours, to face criminal charges. that has never happened before and as you d expect huge focus on the former president. these are live pictures from manhattan outside the courthouse. there s a heavy security presence as you d imagine. the charges relate to hush money paid to a pawn starjust paid to a porn starjust before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair. the full details of the charges will become clear when the indictment is unsealed. the former president with his legal team having added a prosecutor to his team making their final preparations. when were speaking with our correspondent a little while earlier he was telling us about some last minute moves they were anticipating when proceedings get going with the defence team going to ask for the trial to move out of manhattan to staten island so interest in the tactics there in terms of a little more supp
decides whether to move the trial and it looks unlikely as it stands but those are the pictures there in terms of trump tower. in terms of what we re likely to see thejudge has ruled, that the media will be allowed to take still pictures in the courtroom just before the hearing gets under way but tv cameras will only be allowed, in the corridors outside. we will see if the former president walks past the cameras and says nothing which is not normally his style but we will wait to see if he addresses the cameras. many of his supporters are across the road. i can see pictures out of the corner of my eye with some of his supporters with flags and those people have been amassed outside, just across the way from the courthouse. and those crowds have been growing and that warning from